With very little effort you can get these super cute pumpkin designs!

One of my favorite fall traditions! Pumpkin Carving!

(If I’m being totally honest, the main reason I love carving pumpkins so much is because I get all those wonderful fresh pumpkin seeds out of it for roasting!)

But today is all about the carving! I’m going to give you three very simple ways to get a beautiful pumpkin with much less effort!

1. Flower Pot Pumpkin

Materials Needed

• 1 Pumpkin

• Flower picks of your choosing (I got these at Wal-Mart)

• Drill

• 3/4 Drill Bit

Instructions

1. Remove the top of the pumpkin.

2. Thoroughly clean out all the seeds and inside of the pumpkin. (Keep those seeds for roasting!)

3. Drill holes, a few inches apart, in a line all the way around the pumpkin.

4. Fill the top of the pumpkin with flowers.

5. put a single flower from your flower pick in each hole surrounding your pumpkin.

Don’t you dare throw those pumpkin seeds out! Roast them using my recipe here.

2. Cookie Cutter Pumpkin

Materials

• Pumpkin

• Pumpkin Carving Kit or Sharp Knife and Large Metal Spoon

• Hammer

• Cookie Cutters, *make sure they’re thick!

Instructions

1. Remove the top of your pumpkin

2. Thoroughly clean out all of the seeds and inside of the pumpkin. (Keep those seeds for roasting!)

3. Take your cookie cutter and press it into your pumpkin and keeping a steady hand start hammering the cookie cutter into your pumpkin.

4. Keep hammering until it goes all the way into your pumpkin. *My pumpkin was pretty thick and so my cookie cutter almost went through to the other side, but not quite. I was still able to hammer the center of my design until the pumpkin piece went through and I was left with a beautiful perfect design! SO happy with how this turned out! SO if yours doesn’t go through at first don’t get discouraged! Just keep hammering!

3. Lantern Pumpkin

Materials

• Pumpkin

• Pumpkin Carving Kit or Sharp Knife and Large Spoon

• Drill

• 3/4 Drill Bit

Insttructions

1. Remove top from pumpkin

2. Thoroughly clean out pumpkin seeds and insides of pumpkin. (Keep those pumpkin seeds for roasting!)

3. Drill holes in straight lines going down top to bottom on your pumpkin.

   TIP: Use the natural lines on your pumpkin as a guide and space the lines a few inches apart.

If you try any of these designs we would love to see them! Post your pictures to Instagram and tag @jessicadiannexoxo using the hashtag #pumpkincarvingmadeeasy